Chapter 104 (2/2)
――We couldn't keep up with the situation, is this oing」
I'll listen to her circuht that, Makina started to vanish――along with Rin-chan
「Deshi+!」
「Rin-chan!!」
I reached my arm out but, I didn't make it in time――those 2 vanished, like mist
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「Does it hurt?」
「It's okay nya, thank you very uided to, we had a futon layed out for Saira
Fortunately there isn't a scar left on the shoulder that was recovered with heal
Just, the pain should still remain
「I couldn't save Rin-san, nya……」
「That was…… was probably, nowhere except when Jin-san first moved
「……No, Alice-san was not mistaken at all nya Don't suddenly cut down a co like I' Makina to death with that ti after that result came out, it really is impossible
But with that it can't be such that it's fine to expose Rin-chan to danger……!
What sort of thing is this!
Why did it come to this!
Would it have been better to turn back as I had thought!?
「Please keep it together nya, Alice-san!!」
As I sat before Saira's pillow in seiza the fist I'd clenched, is softly grabbed
「Rin-chan is still, okay! The time to fret here, doesn't exit nya!」
「Exactly……as you say」
Whether regrets or self reproach, this isn't the ti
Rin-chan is alive, whatis there if I don't trust in that until the end!
Hypothesizing that, where and by what ather infor
It was at that moment that a voice called out froive a reply and, a person suitable to be aa beautiful kimono and Jin-san came into the room from behind it
「I have no excuse for this in a place of recuperation do I」
「N, no, it's okay nya」
「Aah, do notdown okay? With that method this side will also not worry」
That s crossed, on the cushi+on that theto flow
Jin-san went into seiza on the tata by at that person's back
Making a mysterious face toward htly
「I believe that I have no excuse for how you got caught up in a troublesoize for the accident that my country caused」
――Accident?
「An accident, was it」
「U the Jin-san standing by at his back with his eye, Jin-san lowered his head slightly
Somehow, this person is a superior to Jin-san――apparently he's a high up person
How to say this, he purposefully had his legs carry him all the way to this sort of place but, is it possible that this person――
Perhaps he realized the direction of hts from my expression, the man scratched his head as if he was embarrassed
「This is inexcusable, I still haven't , I am called Enishi+ I suppose I'm still not used to my rank」
Just as he said, he projected an unreserved at as a leader
To be sure he lost his oniisama because of the rebellion and, the days since he took over should still be few
「Thank you for going out of your way I a this while she's laying down」
「I said that I know the circu to soently stopped her with his hand
Certainly the other party is royalty but, we're here because he called us over
As long as we don't lose our etiquette it's not necessary to be too et up
「Then, this is sudden but since I assuo on to the main issue」
That's welco here but, this year――to precise right now at this moment, this country is on the brink of disaster」
「……Is this the er?」
「Umu To say that's the volcano's eruption or such, it isn't natural」
I suppose that even a volcano's eruption is rather dangerous but, that would er
「On that i mountain, a ic beast, it is by nocountless generations that was, sealed in that manner for a tis for generations」
Could that possibly,at that face does that mean you have also heard of that? Of that method to seal monsters」
「Is it truly, as the ru
To ic beast's seal, across 1000 years――they offered living sacrifices did they
It's a conversation that makes me shudder but……is that currently a necessary conversation?
「Alice-dono, this isn't the sort of conversation where anyone would do for that which is called a living sacrifice」
「What about, soic power for example? Does this i」
Wait?
A special person, necessary to the kingdoht!
「Miko!」
「Umu……Miko of the seal That is the fadom」
But wait for ht, it was destroyed」
Libra……!
It's such a thing, I don't intend to say that it would've fine if the sacrifices continued
Even so, most likely Libra layed her hands on that fa of 『This』……!
「My country has already been forced into a corner Perhaps we should cross blades with the ic beast with desperate resolve when the seal comes undone, is there no way to somehow remake the seal Opinions are split on these probles, so it caht up in unnecessary suffering」
――I cauard, would it be more correct if I said shi+nobi? The event where Jin-san who is a shi+nobi attacked us
Who was I protecting?
The event where a certain family was destroyed, because of Libra
That Libra――kurozuku resentht with hi child
「Rin-chan is, the loomily
「I knew, the fact that Rin-dono is the family's final survivor As such, I overlooked it when Solt took her with him and left the country Even now, I think that, if we could survive by using such a young child as a living sacrifice then it would be better to fight」
「Obviously!!」
No, it's so of, choose the ht be the obvious calculation of loss and gain
But,is that which says, as if I'd let Rin-chan die!
「Further sacrifice to stretch out our ti sacrifice any but the act of stretching out despair for our children, grandchildren, our posterity」
To choose the present or, to choose the future, internal discord of that opinion's divide was it
「Impossible, is Makina the rebellion's side's……a person on the side that called for Rin-chan to be used as a living sacrifice!?」
「I do not know that……I also, have basically no idea, who that girl is」
It can't be, Makina is……I can't feel that she ca Rin-chan as a living sacrifice
Even nohen the result has come out, I can't think of it in that , there should've been many other opportunities
If it's Makina's power then perhaps she could've stolen Rin-chan, by beating me down from the front
「Just, the uncle who led the rebellion, shi+gen actually was not struck down So unthinkable」
「That uncle ordered it and, Makina abducted Rin-chan, to use her as a living sacrifice?」
It ether
If you're together with Makina even for a little while, you'll understand that she isn't such a child
Further back to those snake eyes, the muscles of my back froze
「……In any case, I understand the conversation Given this the probability that Rin-chan has been, brought to thatbut that」
「I understand, having you teach an to stand up, Jin-san gave me a look with exasperated eyes
「……I think this is ii mountain from this present when the sun has set? Do you want to die?」
「I can't say so leisurely, I will definitely save, Rin-chan」
If I end up being too late I won't finish grieving even if I grieve
「――I understand, I'll also go It's the end if you beco alone and die a pointless death」
「……It would be a great help, if you'd show the way for me」
「Fu, since if the person nity as a ani will have nothing to stand on I suppose」
「……」
Let's just say that it's fine already
「Saira, please stay here and take it easy, since I'll surely bring Rin-chan back withis painful but, since I believe in you!」
After kindly stroking Saira as tears of frustration float on the edges of her eyes, I stand up
「To take Rin-dono back, it will becoen's hand Even if that isn't so, if the seal co of hell……even our side will prepare for battle, and move to evacuate our populace I pray for fortune in battle」
「Hai」
Soiven care here, a pursuit unit set out toward theEnishi+ also, is doing what he can in his position
Even though it's a position where he ht actually think that it would be better if Rin-chan was used as a living sacrifice……
If it'll leave the root of evil to the future, fight now, is it
I feel that can't be said easily
「……Do you get this, Alice-dono? If, if so undone happens at the su That isn't your opponent」
Hearing this h to leave it be
「I'll be, as careful as I can」
I'll be careful to, strike it down
The 2nd disciple of Ice and Snoill, unravel the misdeeds of her ane-disciple and, this country's curse from ancient tiine That, massive snake」
Either way, I'll save Rin-chan
That is all right now
「Let's go」
「Aah」
Alongside Jin-san, I immediately jumped toward the mountain from the room's hallway――
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